Ruth Gilmore

Jan 21, 2025 | lithub.com | Kim Kelly |Dean Spade |Ruth Gilmore

For all of humanity’s many, many flaws, one of our most redeeming characteristics as a species is an almost-universal desire to connect with one another. When terrible things happen and communities find themselves under threat, people invariably step up and offer to help. Beloved children’s television star Fred Rogers famously told us to “Look for the helpers” after a tragedy, because he knew we’d see them.

May 30, 2024 | versobooks.com | Mike Davis |Owen Hatherley |Ruth Gilmore

This week on The Verso Podcast we’re looking at the unflinching work of Mike Davis - born in 1946 and sadly passing away in 2022. He began as an organiser who was radicalised by the civil rights movement in the US, only coming to writing much later in life after stints working as a truck driver and meat cutter - among other things.

May 3, 2024 | versobooks.com | Alberto Toscano |Ewa Majewska |Leo Löwenthal |Ruth Gilmore

The below is a lightly edited version of a presentation given at a book launch forLate Fascismin February of 2024. In our contemporary moment, bombs relentlessly decimate schools, hospitals, and water supplies, driving people from their homes. Austerity measures deepen punishing global economic divides, as authoritarian governments subject the most vulnerable poor and unhoused to state violence and imprisonment.

Feb 13, 2024 | versobooks.com | McKenzie Wark |Izumi Suzuki |Andreas Malm |Ruth Gilmore

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Jan 29, 2024 | portside.org | Ruth Gilmore

On the Centenary of Lenin’s Death Published January 29, 2024 Lenin was present in my early consciousness of politics and communism: the Soviets and ‘us’. In this instance, ‘us’ was some combination of Negro peoples – soon to become Black in the US – who were involved in the post–WWII round of emancipation. Universalist and internationalist in ambition, this movement linked up and shared inspiration and analysis with global anti-imperial liberation movements.